With web technologies generally, and flash specifically, managing cached assets can sometimes feel like walking a tightrope. If you’ve got a simple slideshow and have occasional updates to the image you want immediately reflected to the client, you’ll often see traditional “cache-busting” methods like appending a random number of the current UTC time to the […]

As relates to my previous posts on XHTML compliant flash objects here and here, occasionally you might want a 100% viewport flash application, but allow the browser to show scrollbars if the window is beneath a certain size. There are ways to do this using JavaScript of course, and in theory setting the min-height of […]

My post on XHTML valid flash objects in general is here. The markup for an XHTML valid 100% width and height flash site follows. The catch is height in certain browsers (FF) – which will render at about 150 pixels if the height of the body and html elements aren’t explicitly set.